Today in History...

[Lyn (Readinghearts), The mod of last resort/Mod #3]

I love the one for Monday, lol.

[[deleted user]]

I love it! Henry looks dashing lol

[Jennifer, Group Founder/Mod #1]

Thanks girls ;)
Does anyone have any request for future holiday/royalty mash-up pics?

Happy 4th of July to all the Americans in the group and a belated Happy Canada Day to any Canadians. I was too busy celebrating Canada Day to get on GR :)

July 4, 2011
Otto von Habsburg, last crown prince of Austria-Hungary and MEP (1979-1999) (b. 1912) died today at the age of 99.

[[deleted user]]

Mmmmmm I can only think of the usuals. Christmas, Easter, USA has Thanksgiving and Halloween (That should be interesting :))

[Lyn (Readinghearts), The mod of last resort/Mod #3]

July 5th 1681 Fjodor Aleksejevitsj, tsar of Russia, dies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feodor_I...

[Meghan]

July 6, 1553 King Edward VI of England dies at age 15

[Jennifer, Group Founder/Mod #1]

So young...

[Meghan]

Jennifer wrote: "So young..."

It makes me wonder how different England would have been if he had lived and Mary and Elizabeth never had the chance to be queens.

[Lyn (Readinghearts), The mod of last resort/Mod #3]

I know, Meghan. It would be interesting to explore, huh?

[Lyn (Readinghearts), The mod of last resort/Mod #3]

July 7th 1572 Sigismund II August, last Jagellonen king of Poland, dies at 51

http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/con...

http://www.answers.com/topic/sigismun...

[Shirley]

July 8th,975: Edgar the Peaceful, King of England dies

[Shirley]

July 9, 1540 England's King Henry VIII had his six-month marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, annulled. She was nicknamed The Flanders Mare.

July 9,1553 Lady Jane Grey was proclaimed queen of England in succession to Edward VI. Her reign lasted only nine days. Her successor was Mary I.

July 9,1947 Princess Elizabeth (the Queen) and Philip Mountbatten announced their engagement.

July 9,1973 Prince Charles enjoyed the Bahamas' last day as a British colony. He had hosted a formal reception at Government House, Nassau, the previous night for dignitaries from 52 countries overseeing the end of over 300 years of British sovereignty.

July 9, 1982 Queen Elizabeth II woke to find an intruder (Michael Fagan) sitting at the end of her bed, raising further concerns about poor Palace security.

[Lyn (Readinghearts), The mod of last resort/Mod #3]

July 9th 1401 Mongol monarch Timur Lenk destroys Baghdad

http://greek438.tripod.com/timurlenk.htm

[Lyn (Readinghearts), The mod of last resort/Mod #3]

July 10th 1086 Knut IV, the Saint, king of Denmark (1080-86), murdered

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut_the...
http://catholicheritage.blogspot.com/...

July 10th 1103 Erik I Ejegod, the good hearted, King of Denmark (1095-1103), dies

http://medievaldanishfamilies.blogspo...

I had to use these two. The Danish sure know how to name their monarchs, don't they.

[[deleted user]]

Wow July 9 was a popular day

[Lyn (Readinghearts), The mod of last resort/Mod #3]

July 11th 1347 Bohemia heir to the throne elected German anti-king Charles IV

[Shirley]

July 12, 1543 England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr (6th and last wife)

[Lyn (Readinghearts), The mod of last resort/Mod #3]

July 12th 1191 Richard Coeur de Lion & Crusaders defeat Saracens in Palestine

[Meghan]

July 16, 1557 Anne of Cleves dies at age 41

[Melissa]

August 17
1473 – Richard, Duke of York is born

[Lyn (Readinghearts), The mod of last resort/Mod #3]

Ya - I have kind of let this one slip for the summer. Lots going on. Richard is a person who is near and dear to all of our hearts, though.

[Melissa]

August 22

1485 – The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.

[Kelly A.]

If I'm not mistaken, isn't today Elizabeth I's birthday?

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

It was September 7, 1533.

[Lyn (Readinghearts), The mod of last resort/Mod #3]

I am so off on these. The last of my kids is leaving next Wednesday, so I will try to get back on track. Sorry all :)

[Antje གརས པཅ]

51 – Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
852 – Croatian Duke Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.
932 – Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
1152 – Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
1238 – The Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Russia.
1351 – Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
1386 – Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.
1461 – Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV..
1665 – English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1675 – John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
1848 – Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia.

Births

1188 – Blanche of Castile, wife of Louis VIII of France (d. 1252)
1651 – John Somers, 1st Baron Somers (d. 1716)
1719 – George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (d. 1777)
1904 – Luis Carrero Blanco, 1st Duke of Carrero Blanco, Spanish admiral (d. 1973)
1911 – Charles Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick, British peer (d. 1984)
1923 – Ameli, Duchess of Oldenburg
1926 – Prince Dimitri Romanov, Russian prince, philanthropist and author
1992 – Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, daughter of Albert II, Prince of Monaco

Deaths
1172 – Stephen III of Hungary (b. 1147)
1193 – Saladin, Kurdish sultan (b. 1137)
1238 – Joan of England, Queen Consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II (b. 1210)
1238 – Yuri II, Grand Prince of Vladimir (b. 1189)
1303 – Daniel of Moscow, Russian Saint, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1261)
1484 – Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (b. 1458)
1496 – Sigismund of Austria (b. 1427)
1619 – Anne of Denmark, wife of James I (b. 1574)
1710 – Louis III, Prince of Condé (b. 1668)
1744 – John Anstis, Garter King of Arms (b. 1669)

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

An action-packed day for royalty!

[Antje གརས པཅ]

I think that's the norm, there were quite a few things I had to take out

[Jennifer, Group Founder/Mod #1]

1581 – Francis Drake is knighted for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
1660 – Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of England.
1814 – Napoleon abdicates for the first time.
1866 – Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt in the city of Kiev.
1939 – Faisal II becomes King of Iraq.

[Antje གརས པཅ]

I didn't know that Ukraine was a part of Russia in the 1800

[Jennifer, Group Founder/Mod #1]

1081 – Alexios I Komnenos is crowned Byzantine emperor at Constantinople, bringing the Komnenian dynasty to full power.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

In the 19th century most of what is now the Ukraine was Russian, and the other was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

It only became independent of Russia in 1991.

[Antje གརས པཅ]

I had always thought they got what is now Ukraine in the Soviet Era XD, I need to read up a little more on Slavic history